The House passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Tuesday despite President Trump’s threats to veto the bill. The massive bill allocates $740 billion for military spending and includes amendments that could block planned troop drawdowns from Afghanistan and Germany.
President Trump has threatened to veto the NDAA because it does not include a provision to repeal Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. Section 230 gives tech platforms immunity from liability over the content published by third party users. The president also objects to an amendment that would remove Confederate names from US military bases.
The final tally for the votes on the bill was 335-78-1, which is well over the two-thirds majority needed to override a presidential veto. The Senate is expected to vote on the NDAA sometime this week.
Ahead of the vote, President Trump wrote on Twitter: “I hope House Republicans will vote against the very weak National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which I will VETO. Must include a termination of Section 230 (for National Security purposes), preserve our National Monuments, & allow for 5G & troop reductions in foreign lands!”
Out of the 196 Republicans in the House, 140 voted in favor of the bill. Rep. Liz Cheney (D-WY), who crafted the amendment to block the Afghanistan withdrawal, commented on the NDAA on Monday. “We ought to pass the NDAA and the president should not veto it. And we should override it,” she said.
Cheney teamed up with House Democrats to include the Afghanistan amendment on the bill. The amendment was proposed after The New York Times published a thinly-sourced story that claimed Russia paid bounties to the Taliban to kill US troops in Afghanistan, a claim that was never substantiated.
One can always count on a DC bipartisan consensus on more military spending and support for endless wars..
when it comes to murder/torture/imperialism amerikans enthusiastically agree
Sadism is in their nature, built up over the last three centuries.
Jesus loves America. God bless America.
Yeah, sure.
There is only one party in America. It is the War Party. The Democrats have been cozying up to warpigs like John Bolton and the other Neocons.
I’m a little surprised that 78 voted against the War Party. There’s the nucleus of a post-Bernie-Trump political realignment, …an anti-war party?
One can hope. Why do I think they voted for reasons other than being anti-war. Maybe the $740 billion wasn’t enough.
Taxpayers Money for Stupid Wars, but No Money for Poor Pandemic-affected Taxpayers….!
This is the USA claiming to be a democracy. How can they possibly pretend this is what the US public wants? People want health care, homes, jobs, security, not more wars and attacks on other lands which have not threatened us.
Long ago, before the world wide web, the big three US television networks were required by law to provide time for the party not in the White House to provide their version of the State of The Union address following the President’s address.
With Silicon Valley INC, there is no legal requirement to allow contrasting viewpoints on their platforms.